I Make Sense to Me
Someone wrote…
As confusing as it might be to some, being a woman identified transguy makes all the sense in the world to me.
What’s your experience?
Posted by Chris on June 12th, 2011 at 08:00 am
Category: your voice 4 comments »
June 12th, 2011 at 9:07 am |
And I’m a female-identified trans guy! (at least part of the time)
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June 12th, 2011 at 2:47 pm |
That makes total sense to me. I am always struggling with the justfication of feeling like I AM a transguy but with my female-ness still intact, without being a butch lesbian, or a femme-transman.
I’m a female-identified transguy.
Or as I oftenrefer to myself- a She-Geek-Dude.
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June 13th, 2011 at 10:12 am |
It took me a long time to figure out the difference between being something and identifying as something. I tried for a long time to make these two different things the same.
I am a human being. Jessica is who I am because Jessica is the person who does the things I do. Jessica speaks my words. It is with Jessica’s eyes, ears nose, fingers and toes that I touch the world.
Jessica is the human woman man grownup child elder laughing crying wondering person whose heart the world touches.
And I do not cease to be one thing because I have become something else. I am all things I have been and new things I have never been before.
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June 15th, 2011 at 9:26 am |
It makes sense to me too! I identify as an ftm transsexual but also as genderfluid, sometimes identifying as male, female, genderqueer, and agender.
It sucks the most when other trans people don’t get it – you’d think we’d all understand that body/sex doesn’t define gender, but apparently not.
I explained it to another trans person the other day in a way I liked: I identify as an ftm transsexual, but that has just about as much bearing on my gender identity as my assigned sex at birth does. Got my point across real quick! :-)
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